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The AfD’s breakthrough in Germany may be a harbinger of a rightward shift in European politics. Even Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is not right-wing...
Relying on the goodwill of AI companies to share incident information at their discretion, based on opaque criteria that they have set, is not enough.
What we could be seeing playing out in 2026, is the start of an epoch-defining provocation of the gentle giant due to the artificial intelligence...
To truly prepare the nation to withstand all the possible sources of instability, the government’s priority should be to control the known...
The postwar order is collapsing due to the cowboy behaviour of the superpowers, highlighting the need for Anthony Albanese to act in solidarity with...
Memory doesn’t work quite like a recording device. Remembering involves reconstruction, which leaves memories open to influence from things that...
As home values enter freefall, the RBA is doubling down on higher rates, setting the stage for what could be the worst property crash in the...
For all the pomp, pageantry and claims of stronger ties, the two nations’ deeper foreign policy divides remain largely unaddressed.
Housing downturns affect far more than residential property values and have implications across a surprisingly wide range of companies and financial...
Bigger government, higher taxes, more expensive energy, more regulated workplaces and closing off natural growth options will make Australia second...
This was a week in which we were told that what will save us might also destroy us. AI was both our economic saviour and an existential threat.
Governments rarely win votes by telling people they have to go to work. But popularity isn’t the same thing as good economic policy.
The head of the SME unit has presided over risk control issues for years, and it doesn’t appear he’s done much at all to help to fix the culture.
This “rogue” AI agent meant no harm. Put that capability in the hands of a ransomware gang or a foreign intelligence service and we will suffer...
The breach lays bare our brittle IT defences and how Australia’s national security is paying the price of foreign tech giants’ trial-and-error...
It seems incredibly tin-eared that the mega-rich superannuation lobby can’t be bothered to engage in the central issue of home ownership.
Attackers get exactly the same benefit, which means we need to put machines on the other side as well.
Replacing guaranteed working holiday visas with a lottery risks starving the country’s food basket of vital workers who pick our crops and keep...
Just 1 per cent of Australians fully trust AI and 44 per cent have little or no trust, leaving us using AI more than most but trusting it less than...
Some Australians believe the tariff battle is a struggle between the US and China. But it’s really a much larger conflict between Beijing and most...
The first hearing should dispel any notion the inquiry wasn’t necessary to investigate the actions of the Andrews and Allan governments over the...
The PM wins easy praise for appearing to tackle the dark side of the internet while delivering a draft bill that is either defunct or promoting...
At a time of careening global instability, America’s president is simultaneously stoking it and uninterested in doing anything about it.
The only reason a person could ever think that we need more unemployment in this country is because they haven’t had to get by on jobseeker.
Real-world evidence shows this is the minimum contribution that delivers an ageing population the quality of life they deserve in retirement.
Getting inflation back to target should now be the Reserve Bank’s priority. Expect a rate rise on September 29, followed by another in November.
On the occasion of a dinner in Sydney on Tuesday to mark the 25th anniversary of AFR Magazine’s Power issue, the Treasurer shares his own journey to...
The goal should be ensuring reserved gas can reach customers through any practical and commercially available route – not just existing pipelines.
Big-money elections create fertile conditions for wealthy interests to have undue influence over policymaking and lead to pay-for-access scandals.
The shakeout in the $200 billion ‘shadow banking’ sector goes far beyond the cyclical headwinds of the property downturn.
The legacy of the GFC and COVID-19 was seen as a downward trend in the long-term neutral interest rate. Persistent inflation is forcing a correction...
The question is whether our free nations will set the terms on the development of artificial intelligence or permit other nations to set them for us.
The international community desperately needs far-sighted leadership but the US and Chinese leaders are unlikely to provide it.
Our inflation problem is homegrown. Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim that international factors are to blame for our problems is nonsense.
If robots take those jobs, they will kill a multitude of benefits that are not always obvious to those of us in the back seat.
The point isn’t to debate the claim of a 10 per cent p(doom), but rather the lack of a critical approach to insider claims that have led to mass...
Australia’s immigration debate has descended into a bidding war over who can produce the lowest number of “others” coming into the country.
For the real incomes of Australians, productivity will be the overriding determinant of how much better off future generations are than their...
It is reasonable for Australia to request early-stage access, when models are still in the testing phase, to guard against AI models running amok.
The whole framing of the exercise as “make some assumptions and see what happens” is wrong. We need to flip the script and make it a relevant...
The public debate often focuses on the risks AI may create. The greater economic risk may be failing to build frameworks that allow businesses to...
The Albanese government has taken the wrong lessons from the Intergenerational Reports – if we don’t increase the economic pie, younger...
The best positioned organisations will be those that maintain disciplined governance, invest in appropriate resilience and readiness, and get the...
Demand is rising, public hospitals are increasingly overburdened, and patients are looking for greater choice, clarity and access to care.
In finally seeking to rein in temporary migrant numbers, the government should not over-correct in its desire to defuse the political heat over...
Forget a sharp fall. A profound change is more likely to manifest in the form of stalled housing value growth over the next decade.
Boosting Australia’s stagnant productivity as a matter of urgency is far more important than making the IRG modelling add up.
Hiring an external chief investment officer is a trend that is gaining traction overseas, but it does not come without risks.
Just as Chair Kevin Warsh’s faith in the technology cutting inflation is in abeyance, our treasurer has found AI religion in the Intergenerational...
The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets, and perhaps might even open up a new investment opportunity.
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